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What to Monitor in Active Directory to Keep Logons Fast and Access Under Control

Why do logons crawl at one branch while headquarters is fine, or an admin group gain a member nobody approved, and no alert says a word? Trace any of those back far enough and you usually reach Active Directory. Since email, VPN, file shares and line-of-business software all lean on it for credentials, a directory fault rarely looks like itself and tends to show up as a network outage or a bug in some other application. Most of these faults creep in.

Everything We Talked About at O11yDay London 2026

We just wrapped O11yDay London, and one theme ran through every session: writing code is no longer the hard part. Review queues, attention, operating agents in production, runaway token bills, and proving any of it is worth the money are where teams are getting stuck. The teams making progress are the ones who can see what's happening in production. Here are some highlights. We'll have videos available in the near future.

CriblCon 26 Keynote highlights: Cribl StreamAI, App Framework, Marketplace, and Detect

This CriblCon 26 keynote highlight reel introduces Cribl’s AI platform for telemetry and highlights Cribl StreamAI, the Cribl App Framework, Cribl Marketplace, and Cribl Detect. It is relevant to IT, security, and observability teams exploring intelligent model routing, agentic app development, marketplace deployment, and security investigations using telemetry and context. The keynote also covers the SEC IT benchmark, the cost of investigating incidents with different AI models, and included inference for Cribl-native workloads.

AI infrastructure costs in 2026: what the stack is, what each layer costs, and how much to commit

AI infrastructure costs span four buying tiers in 2026: API-only teams spend hundreds to tens of thousands per month on tokens, GPU renters typically pay $2 to $10 per GPU-hour by chip class, committed-capacity buyers sign six-to-eight-figure reservation contracts, and owners spend millions per rack. The stack has six layers, and most budgets underestimate everything below the GPU line.

How CFOs can control AI spend and prove AI's value

Neil Sawyer, Senior Vice President and Managing Director for HP Europe, Middle East and Africa, recently published “Scaling AI Without Losing Control” in Forbes Business Council. His starting point will be familiar to any finance leader. AI pilots looked affordable on pay-per-token and pay-per-query pricing, and that same pricing can get far more expensive at enterprise scale. Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.7 trillion in 2026, up 49.5%.

Vercel Ship 2026: 3 Takeaways, and What Vercel's BYOC Still Keeps Outside Your Cloud

Vercel Ship 2026 made three things clear: Vercel wants your backend, agents now trigger most deployments, and Bring Your Own Cloud on AWS is GA. Here is what each announcement means for platform teams, what Vercel BYOC actually runs in your AWS account, and what it leaves on Vercel. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

Lessons Learned on the Journey Zero Disruption: How to Build Buy-In Across the Organization

Operationalizing digital employee experience is not about implementing another technology platform or launching another transformation project. It is about embedding new capabilities into the way IT and eventually the wider organization identifies problems, manages change and improves the employee experience. That cannot happen through implementation alone.

How Digital Check-Ins Cut Equipment Maintenance Effort

Digital check-ins reduce equipment maintenance effort by replacing inconsistent paper logs with structured records that route defect reports, parts requests, and job closures through a single traceable system, eliminating the reconstruction work that delays repairs when handwritten notes are incomplete or missing. The reduction comes from process design, not from the technology itself.

How Digital Records Simplify Heavy Equipment Moves

Digital records simplify heavy equipment moves by replacing assumption-based coordination with verified, structured data that every party in the transport chain can act on, eliminating the three most common and costly failures: wrong trailer arrivals, unusable pickup windows, and blocked site access. For Texas contractors and equipment-rental dispatch teams, those failures are not edge cases. They are the predictable result of information gaps that a complete shared dispatch record is specifically designed to prevent.

How Digital Rosters Build Winning Teams Faster

Digital rosters eliminate the specific chaos that derails jersey orders: conflicting size lists from group texts, sign-up sheets, and handwritten notebooks, two players who requested the same number, and a name spelled differently across three separate sources. A single maintained spreadsheet or team management app replaces all of that with one file, updated in real time, that every downstream decision flows from.